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  1. No, Baccarat is a game where the player selects to bet on "Player" or "House" where "House" has a slight advantage... a player who bets on "House" too often is likely to be given an offer to invest in the casino.

    It's a money-losing party for the casino, but a chance to meet people associated with a potential investor. Ivey cheated with his selection of the cards, giving him more of a win ratio than the house would have paid in a fair game.

  2. Re:Land of the "Free" on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Forced error... they shouldn't have let Ivey select a deck that gave him the down cards' identity.

  3. Re:news for nerds stuff that matters on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything at a casino is now RFID/Camera/Magnetic tracked... there's computers recording video of your every move. This is a case of a hack to defeat the casino's randomness.

  4. Re:Swindling a casino. on How A Professional Poker Player Conned a Casino Out of $9.6 Million (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Electronic shufflers are USB devices connected the the casino's backroom servers. The hack here was that the cards were marked by uneven backside designs, so the random result was revealed too early to the player.

  5. Re:Peter Thiel didn't bankrupt Gawker on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Gawker kept winning over the Hogan Family (as seen in VH1 series Hogan Knows Best and Brooke Knows Best) by outspending them, when the Hogans had solid facts behind them. So, some investors reviewed the case without money involved, then bought the Hogan claim and won big for everybody but Gawker.

  6. Function YouAreAWinner(PlaintiffSide as Object, Defense as Object) as Boolean
            If PlaintifSide.Facts > Defense.Arguments Then YouAreAWinner = True Else YouAreAWInner = False
    End Function

  7. Re:since the inception... on Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    X alone isn't enough... try fill in the oval. Machines can then confirm you voted the right number of times in each category, and spit the ballot out if you've marked improperly.

  8. Re:And when Trump says the same thing, it's an out on Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    People who don't vote get trampled in most places... if parents don't teach how to vote, then the parents get control of the the government and get to ruin their children.

    This is why Election Day should be a school-closed holiday every year.

  9. Re:And when Trump says the same thing, it's an out on Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    That's also a way of saying the states that moved their primaries earlier did a better review of election law... Clinton was a late surge in the polls outside of the ballots too.

  10. Re:And when Trump says the same thing, it's an out on Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We covered this back in the 2000s decade... non-driver ID cards with everything else are being handed out to everybody who doesn't drive.

  11. Re:Paper ballots on Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    We discussed this back in 2000... computers marking paper ballots is the supreme system for voting.

  12. If you don't trust NIST, turn off automatic time sync in your OS.

  13. Re:Keep shit offline on America's NIST Seeks Public Comments on Cybersecurity and Cryptography (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a situation for backup... not the primary copies.

  14. Re:Too much computer use bad for mental health? on Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I was on Prodigy during the downhill slide of pricing from $3.60 an hour down to $2.95 and eventually all-you-could-use for $20.

  15. Re:Too much computer use bad for mental health? on Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it was some kind of cut-and-paste trollage of ancient history.

    The cutting of lines early seems to resemble something that was posted on Prodigy.

  16. Re:GPL: Intellectual Theft on Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Nice troll, though. 7 out of 10 for the effort.

    We rate things here on a scale of -1 to 5...

  17. HRC's E-mail Server on Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Mrs. Clinton is having trouble with people complaining about her e-mail server, while the truth is she's been facing the limits of IT and backup for years. Today there's multi-TB hard drives... but those weren't available during the Bubba Administration. Seems like nobody in politics can keep a contact list private these days.

  18. Re:GPL: Intellectual Theft on Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    You're offtopic... but this is the kind of thing Slashdot was built to discuss. Try submitting this as a story and hopefully the editors will respond.

  19. Remember the Paris Hilton Sidekick... on Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Not much is lost when a list of phone numbers and names is published... remember what happened when Paris Hilton (hotel chain rich girl and occasional TV star) had her SIdekick list published. Those who didn't want to be called changed their number quickly, and some who did want to be called such as low-rated TV personality Justin Gunn made bank collecting information... he even made a Current TV video bragging about his newfound fame.

    Remember, everybody in the US House of Representatives is up for reelection right now. So, those phone numbers can be pointed at contribution-taking call centers and taken to the bank..

    So, is this the first WIn10 hack or just a lazily e-mailed document?

  20. Re:Always want control, don't they? on Cable Companies Pledge Industry-Wide Commitment But Want Control Over UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A TV box has to be the size of a small computer, because that's what it takes to decode MPEG2/MPEG4 streams, you need a full circuit board. Gotta have room for encoding it into HDMI/DVI, sound out, etc.

  21. Re:People use this crap? on Cable Companies Pledge Industry-Wide Commitment But Want Control Over UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My current monitor comes with speakers that can register as a sound device in my Mac Mini... now if only it came with a remote.

  22. Re:I wonder why they resist this on Cable Companies Pledge Industry-Wide Commitment But Want Control Over UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Really, there should be nothing stopping a national cable company, competing with two national DBS companies, and in most areas the local phone former-monopolies.

  23. Re:I wonder why they resist this on Cable Companies Pledge Industry-Wide Commitment But Want Control Over UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    DirecTV never really offered enough savings in the customer-owned equipment era to compete with cable box rental fees... really box rental is itemized so they can charge less tax.

  24. Re:I wonder why they resist this on Cable Companies Pledge Industry-Wide Commitment But Want Control Over UI (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Slingbox should now be banned. Why stream the cable channel from your side of the cable connection back over the cable modem when you can grab it from a TV Everywhere datacenter? That has less delay, and keeps from your neighborhood clogging up the local wire.

  25. That works for entertainment (why pay for HBO movies when they'll soon be on Netflix?) but for video news you're basically down to CBSN.